In article <1992Aug18.162006.13422@athena.mit.edu>, chchen@stat.fsu.edu (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
|> I've upgraded to GCC 2.2.2d yesterday. By reading FAQ for GCC and FAQ for
|> Linux, I still have some questions:
|> 
|> 1. The FAQ says I should get rid of gcc older than 2.2.2. But how about
|>    2.2.2 itself? With 2.2.2 and 2.2.2d together, I don't have much more
|>    hard disk space left. Should I used the method suggested in Linux FAQ,
|>    which means I need to use some device to detect the depending version
|>    of all the binaries compiled by GCC and then recompile the older ones?
|> 

You only need gcc 2.2.2 for X386 v1.1 which will be replaced by a new one
soon. Please read release.2.2.2d and make your own decision.

|> 2. Having only 2 introductory C books on hand and a simple GCC man page,
|>    Should I keep all the stuffs in the following 3 directories if I don't
|>    write C programs myself and just use GCC to compile new utilities and
|>    use them?
|> 
|>        /lib/*.*
|>        /usr/lib/...../i386-linux/2.2.2d/*.*
|>        /usr/lib/...../i386-linux/2.2.2d/shared/*.*
|> 
|> 

You need them. 

|> Steve Chen                   chchen@stat.fsu.edu
|>        

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H.J.
Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.